Hanging Prayer Wheel Tibet 5W Mantra Symbol

Product description Hanging Prayer Wheel Tibet 5W Mantra Symbol

Follow the slowly turning Dharma wheel, repeat the mantra Om mani padme hum several times, and feel the influx of good karma...

The Tibetan prayer mill (Mani Khorlo) is basically a cylinder of metal, wood, stone or other material, decorated on the outside with mantras, sutras or auspicious symbols. It is mounted on a wooden spike, around which is wrapped paper described not with prayers but with mantras, most commonly the mantra Om mani padme hum. By turning the grinder clockwise, the mantra inside the grinder unfolds as if it were being read, releasing good karma into the surroundings. Each turn of the grinder is as meritorious as reading the mantra aloud as many times as it is written on the paper inside the grinder. This means that the more mantras written on the paper, the more powerful the mantra becomes by turning the mill. The correct procedure is a slow smooth turning of the wheel with motivation, compassion, and the wish for full enlightenment in mind for the benefit of all living beings.

Tibetan Prayer Mills, as their name suggests, go back far in history to Tibet and China. The form of these mills is essentially a physical manifestation of the phrase "turning the wheel of Dharma", which describes the way Buddha taught his followers. Their original purpose was to spread the dharma and make the reading of the sutras easier for the common people (who in many cases were largely illiterate). The prayer mills were meant to aid in the chanting of the sutras, and turning them is said to have the same effect as the actual reading of the sutras. Ultimately, the mills thus served to accumulate good karma in the form of wisdom and merit and to purify from bad karma, i.e., anything negative, simply by turning them. It is even said that turning the wheel of a grinder in absent-mindedness has benefits and merits.

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